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There is nothing more disturbing than reading an article devoted to the trio of Fed Chairman Alan Greenspan, Treasury Secretary Robert Rubin and Deputy Treasury Secretary Larry Summers [BUSINESS, Feb. 15]. These men hypocritically preach the merits of free markets and the evils of crony capitalism, yet have done more to subvert the free market than any other American economic navigators to date. They are anything but saviors of the world. By undermining the free markets on behalf of Wall Street special interests, they have destroyed the once level playing field and removed the essential element of risk necessary...
Having worked with the Fed's Paul Volker and Treasury's Don Regan in the mid-1980s, I am in a unique position to recognize the extraordinary job that your Committee to Save the World has done. They are the strongest economic team we've ever had. But recognition must also be given to the many professional career people at the Treasury and the Federal Reserve, without whose expertise and tireless efforts the current situation might not have been achieved...
...that year, reports of lynchings had become shallow waters compared with the swollen river of death that claimed thousands during the post-Reconstruction period and into the first decades of this century. But the mid-century lynching of the child Emmett Till became one of the tributaries that fed into a different kind of river, the flood of the civil rights movement...
Increasingly, students who are fed up with inadequate advising in their departments or just looking for a different perspective on academic advice are organizing clubs and programs to get the information they need...
Increasingly, students fed up with inadequate advising in their departments or just looking for a different perspective on academic advice are organizing clubs and programs to get the information they need...